stoy

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 hours ago

From the first paragraph of the article:

Even in desert conditions, there exists some level of humidity that, with the right material, can be soaked up and squeezed out to produce clean drinking water.

In the dry dessert the amount if water in the air is so minuscule that it just doesn't doesn't make any sense to do this.

Regarding the "clean" claim, you would get all the crap from the air in your water, also to preserve the water you would need to keep it chilled after boiling it, else you get sick, badly sick.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

Yes, this is 100% accurate!

To the downvoters, please don't just downvote, give me a plausible scenario of when harvesting water from air is more useful than just cleaning existing water.

Condensating water is VERY energy intensive, filtering far less so.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 hours ago

So how long untill digital photos are inadmissble in court?

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

As a general rule, I will try to standardize on Dell Ultrasharp monitors, now that they support 120hz, there is little reason for me to pick something else.

I am currently running a U2724D at home and it is brilliant!

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

IT guy here, what monitors have you used?

I don't think I have ever found a monitor where you can't change the input when the screen is off, usually when you press the input button the monitor will turn on to show the input menu.

This works with monitors from Dell, AOC, Philips, Lenovo and others.

You need to press the input button, not the generic menu button, but it has always worked for me.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I am currently building a server, I have five things left to get before I can use it, two 8TB HDDs, two 2TB SSDs and a SATA controller card.

I bought RAM for ut this summer a 2x 16GB Kingston kit, that kit has increased in cost by 1000SEK, insane....

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 15 hours ago

Ah, I am currently looking for a Trimui Brick Hammer, though I may start with an Anbernic device and they are easier to come by for me...

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 14 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (5 children)
[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 5 points 17 hours ago

You don't understand, they are not in the top three in the highscore list!

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cool quote, but incorrect.

What is considered a deviation from the norm is HIGHLY subjective, a society where the norm is to embrace new ideas would be the opposite of this quote.

Even a society with norms that are more conservative, progress is being made, though quite slow.

There are also times when norms have been challenged, and ended with disaster, just look at OceanGate's Titan, Stockton Rush deviated from the norms of deep water submersibles, and no progress was made, meanwhile other subs built on existing norms have made a lot of progress

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 107 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Looks like Micron decided that consumers weren't crucial to their business.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I have been in several situations where preferred names are not permited in official documentations.

In those engagements you are introduced with your full name, but are welcome to ask participants to use your preferred name.

It just can't be on official documentations

 

You have a super majority in all branches of government, you don't need to consider other parties.

Where do you start, and what is your overall stratergy?

Will you get a second term?

 

This is a Planteray tasting giftbox, six bottles of different rum, five of which are dedicated to a specific bad person, for when I no longer share the planet with them, I printed ribbons on my label maker with the name of the person the bottle is dedicated to.

Interestingly, out of the five bottles I have dedicated, four of them are dedicated to a person with a "u" as the first or only vowel in their surname.

The current dedication goes out to:

Mr. Trump
Mr. Putin
Mr. Musk
Mr. Murdoch
Mr. Orbán

The fifth is as of yet undedicated, but if you have any suggestions, feel free to post them.

 

I have recently got into audiobooks, with a focus on classic sci-fi, I just finnished Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clark (narrated by Peter Gamin), which is absolutely brilliant, highly recommended, and The Time Machine by H. G. Wells (narrated by Kelsey Grammer, free on Apple Books), also brilliant, very different from the 1960s film.

Anyway do you have any tips on classic sci-fi (1870s-1990s) that I should listen to?

I use Apple Books to buy the books, I am not really interested in audiobook streaming, I want to own my books, not rent access to them.

At the moment I have several books that I need to listen to, but I want to buy more now so I have them in my library.

I have the following books in my library:

  • Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C Clark - Narrated by Peter Gamin
  • The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells - Narrated by Alexandra Coles
  • The Time Machine - H. G. Wells - Narrated by Kelsey Grammer
  • The World Set Free - H. G. Wells - Narrated by Sebastian Blackwood
  • I, Robot - Isaac Asimov - Narrated by Scott Brick
  • Ignition, An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants - John Drury Clark - Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross

I am planning on getting 2001: A Space Oddesy and some even more Arthur C. Clark...

 

You hear them bang on and on about this cycle:

Bad times create strong men.
Strong men create good times.
Good times create weak men.
Weak men create bad times.

This is absolutely true, 100%

So the facists are right!

Too bad they confuse who the strong and weak men are...


Sorry for the rage bait title, I just wanted to joke a bit.

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This is a photo of four bottles of champagne each dedicated to Trump, Putin, Musk and Orban respectively for when the world no longer has to deal with their miserable existance.

 

Taken yesterday evening.

 

We are looking at upgrading our network equipment from old HP switches and Aruba access points, we have a Fortinet firewall that we are happy with, so we'll probably keep using them there, but for the rest we are looking for new stuff.

And we are looking closely at Ubiquiti for switches and APs, but two things have appeared on our radar.

Ubiquiti does have a cloud admin UI, this means that Ubiquiti needs to have access to our network controller to access this feature.

But what if we don't use that, will Ubiquiti still be able to access the network controller?

I guess that what I am asking is how does the access control work?

Also, updates, I see that they seem to be very frequent and also see some scattered reports that they have required admins to reset their configs and loosing camera footage, can you set updates to be delayed for X days?

 

I have posted about these bottles before, they are designated to be toasted when the world is freed from the respective person.

The ribbons are printed on a labelmaker in the P-touch series from Brother, and have the following names:

  • Trump
  • Putin
  • Orban
  • Musk

In these shit times this is my little protest against terrible people.

 
 

Earlier today, I saw the post about cow eggs, and just realized that most people don't know that tractors also hatches from eggs, you see these every summer on farmers fields but most people don't realize that this is an integral part of the lifecycle of a tractor.

Tractors lay a lot of eggs in captivity, but few survive to hatch a new tractor, most tractors you see come from the wild tractor populations around the world, this is also why no one has ever been able to take a photo of a tractor hatching from is soft shell.

 

Made by the same guy who later made Iron Sky

 

I posted last week about building a NAS, and on friday I saw that the Jonsbo N4 case I had been eyeing for a while was in stock at a good price.

So now I am looking for a motherboard to base my system on, which seems to be a bit difficult.

I need an mATX or ITX board that can handle six SATA drives and also have an NVME slot for a boot drive.

Performance, I value power efficiency more than super high performance, and am on the fence between Open Media Vault or TrueNAS, I like the familiarity of Linux, but I do value the features of ZFS.

If I end up on TrueNAS I may run a VM in the hypervisor from time to time, mostly just for testing.

The NAS will not be an HTPC, but will serve media through SMB and possibly NFS later.

Cooling could be a bit of an issue as the case does not have a lot of space for a cooler

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